Re: [Wsmanager-devel] Switching to desktop with X11 stays inactive

[Ka-Hing C. <ka...@gm...>]

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 11:16:43 -0400, Joshua Blanton
<jb1...@oa...> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been using Desktop Manager for quite some time now, and really
> appreciate all of the effort that goes into making it work.  Recently
> I switched X11 window managers, though, and since then I've noticed a
> strange behavior with desktops and X11...  I run all of my X11 apps on
> a single desktop, since X11 and OSX don't have the same behavior (mouse
> focus being the most notable, for me) - but when I switch from a desktop
> with an OSX application to the X11 desktop, X11 does not become active.
> 
> Until I switched from the OSX default window manager, this was not a
> problem.  Looking at the Desktop Manager source code leads me to think
> that Desktop Manager itself does not control the re-activating of the
> program on the new desktop (is this true?)...  I'm not sure what can be
> done to fix this issue, other than perhaps adding something like
> AppleScript bindings to the entry of each desktop (so, for instance,
> when switching to desktop 2 I could force the activation of X11)...

I think something like this (probably not so customizble) should
belong to desktop manager. For example if I switch to a desktop and
all the windows of that desktop belong to the same application, then
that application should be activated. I can probably attempt to do
this some time before the end of the weekend. I think anything more
would be overkill until (if) desktop manager gets scripting support.

BTW, you are Ethan Blanton's brother, right? Tell him he rocks.

-khc